Voter Registration Shot Up 175% Among Black Women Since Kamala Harris Entered Race
Written by djfrosty on August 30, 2024
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It’s bad enough for Donald Trump and his 2024 presidential campaign that numerous polls — even Fox News polls — have Vice President Kamala Harris leading Trump nationwide and in key battleground states.
But there’s more to indicate that the momentum of Harris’ campaign is going far beyond what Trump thought he would be facing. According to the New Jersey Advance, voter registration has gone up — ever since President Joe Biden stepped down from the 2024 election and Harris stepped up. Unsurprisingly, voter registration has skyrocketed especially among one demographic that is often the demographic burdened with saving the Democratic party from itself: Black women.
From the Advance:
Voter registration among young Black women took off like a rocket across more than a dozen states after President Joe Biden bowed out of the race against former President Donald Trump, according to data.
As Vice President Kamala Harris worked to secure her party’s support in the week after Biden announced his decision, new registration among the group was up more than 175%, according to an analysis from TargetSmart.
It compared voter registration to the week of July 21, 2020 to July 21, 2024. While there would be little reason for a spike in registration in the middle of the summer of 2020, Tom Bonier, a senior advisor to TargetSmart, told CBS News’ Major Garrett that the data is a bombshell.
A spike in voter registration fresh off of huge news — like the incumbent suddenly declining to run again and giving his VP a shot to become America’s first Black woman president — is something to be expected, but, according to Bonier, a spike this massive ain’t normal.
“175%, could that possibly be right? You must have triple-checked this, or many more times than that?” Garrett asked Bonier.
“You’re right to repeat the number because I’ve more than triple-checked it. It’s incredibly unusual to see changes in voter registration that are anywhere close to this,” the TargetSmart rep responded. “I mean, to remind people, 175% is almost tripling of registration rates among this specific group. You just don’t see that sort of thing happen in elections normally.”
If Trump or his camp ever thought running against Harris was going to be a slam dunk for MAGA, they have a rude awakening coming their way. November is fast approaching, and things are looking good for the underdog.